Download or read book The Conquest of Happiness written by Bertrand Russell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, appears inescapable."